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Re: DVD error
For the last few months I've just thought my TiBook couldn't play DVDs, period. I'd insert them and get that error. Figured it was because it was a G4/500 and I had cloned everything over to it from a G4/800 I had been using while the /500 was getting a bigger drive (I put a 60Gb in there), and there was a driver/vfirmware/something-or-other mismatch. But while I was on the road I stuck a DVD in the bay for the heck of it and found it worked fine. Then when I got home it went back to its erroneous old ways. Suddenly I realized that at home I have it hooked up to the second monitor, in contiguous mode (arranged so the cursor slides from the TiBook screen over to the other one (a 21" Sony Multiscan 520GS). Sometime later this week I'll try playing a DVD on the new InFocus LC-130 projector in mirror mode and see what happens. Meanwhile, the error condition (though not the cause) as been isolated, at least in my case. Clearly, between your case and mine, the kinks have not been worked out. FWIW, my wife's old Lombard laptop (G3/400) running OS 9.2 has no equivalent troubles, (using DVD Player 1.3, I think it is). It can drive the second monitor or mirror onto a projector without any problems at all. Other than speed. It's generally a slower box. Anyway, that's one reason I've held off putting OS X on her machine. Now I've got to go set up the new Linux boxen, whatever they'll be. Should be fun.
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